(2011/10/02) As the class war rages (Economics)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 October 2011
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Edition #534
As the class war rages
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Act 1: Italy downgraded by S and P rating agency - BBC News Quiz
Song 1: Leap - The Cave Singers
Act 2: Numbers 'N' Stuff - Mark Fiore Air Date: 9-15-11
Song 2: Alright - Huey Lewis And The News
Act 3: World economics in "the danger zone" - The Bugle
Song 3: Deep in the sweetwater - Rasputina
Act 4: Solutions To America's Finanacial Worries - WWIII - Colbert Report
Song 4: This war - Ophelia of the Spirits
Act 5: Obama Advisers Exposed In New Book - Young Turks
Song 5: Evil eyes - Theo Bard
Act 6: Poverty Stats Are an Indictment - The Progressive Air Date: 9-14-11
Song 6: The sound of silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Act 7: 40% of Single Mothers Living in Poverty - David Pakman Air Date: 9-20-11
Song 7: Girls - Walter Meego
Act 8: Poverty stats, especially regarding women and children - Majority Report
Song 8: Hide your tears - Daniel Licht
Act 9: Fox News Host: Gutting Poverty Programs Actually "Brings Down the Poverty Rate" - Media Matters Air Date: 9-20-11
Act 10: Media debunks an Obama speech on economics he didn't give - Counterspin
Song 10: Baby, it's fact - Hellogoodbye
Act 11: Class Warfare Is a Lie - Young Turk Air Date: 9-19-11
Song 11: Nearly lost you - Screaming Trees
Act 12: Class Warfare? Give Me a Break! - The Progressive Air Date: 9-20-11
Song 12: Dark flute - Jim Guthrie
Act 13: Limbaugh Revisits "Poor Aren't Really Poor" Argument - Media Matters Air Date: 9-14-11
Act 14: Fund War, Cut Social Security & Medicare - Young Turks
Song 14: Maggie - Rod Steward
Act 15: This is not class warfare, it's math - Jimmy Reefercake
Song 15: Your ex-lover is dead - Stars
Act 16: Economics populism popular with Americans - Rachel Maddow
Voicemails:
Call to action to Occupy Wall Street - Max from Davis, CA
Update on Occupy Wall Street movement - Jake from NY Alt News
Mumia Abu-Jamal should be allowed to speak regardless of his history - Anonymous
Will my membership renew automatically? - Shane from Chicago
Voicemail Music:
Loud Pipes - Ratatat
Final comments asking about Mumia Abu-Jamal commenting on the death penalty
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Govt Wastes Money On Private Contractors - Young Turks
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:09.1 | Now welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast with clips today from the BBC News |
| 0:12.8 | Quiz, MarkFurray.com, The Bugle, The Colbert Report, The Young Turks, The Progressive, |
| 0:17.6 | The David Pakman Show, The Majority Report, Media Matters, Counter-Spin, Jimmy Reefercake, |
| 0:22.7 | and The Rachel Maddo Show with a bonus clip for our Apple iOS and Android app users from |
| 0:27.5 | The Young Turks. |
| 0:30.1 | Julia, which country is poorer because their standards have slipped? |
| 0:34.3 | Well, Italy has had their credit rating downgrade by a standard and poor, and Silvia Bernesconi |
| 0:40.7 | is quite unhappy about it, so I'm surprised really he's got time to be unhappy about it, |
| 0:45.6 | although I've always been impressed with the fact that he's been able to do to the Italian |
| 0:48.7 | economy what he's done to those girls at the Bunga Bunga parties. |
| 0:53.6 | But to suppress Silvia Bernesconi, he runs Italy, he runs Italian television, and he |
| 0:58.6 | manages the sex parties. |
| 0:59.6 | I mean, a man who can multitask, you know, what's to dislike? |
| 1:03.2 | I'm finding it all really complicated. |
| 1:06.1 | I hate all this financial thing, frankly we're going to experience a double-dip recession. |
| 1:09.9 | What is that? |
| 1:10.9 | We're the orange urbanism as good as the lemon. |
| 1:11.9 | I don't know, I don't know. |
| 1:12.9 | Do you know that the European country that has had the healthiest growth is Belgium, |
| 1:18.4 | which hasn't had a government for a year? |
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